Jesse D. Jenkins
@jessedjenkins.com
Macro-energy systems engineering, optimization & policy. Associate professor at Princeton University. Leads the ZERO Lab. Co-hosts SHIFT KEY podcast. Time100 Next & TIME100 Climate honoree. More at linkedin.com/in/jessedjenkins & zero.lab.princeton.edu
Reposted by Jesse D. Jenkins
I'm a big fan of the @rff.org Resources Radio podcast - lots of great interviews with researchers talking about their work so the archive is a real gold mine. We ended up discussing this excellent episode with @catiehausman.bsky.social going through her work on electricity transmission.
Power Flows: Understanding the Barriers to Electricity Transmission, with Catherine Hausman
Catherine Hausman discusses the benefits of building new electricity transmission lines, the costs of not building new transmission, and why more transmission is not being built in the United States.
www.resources.org
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I'm a big fan of the @rff.org Resources Radio podcast - lots of great interviews with researchers talking about their work so the archive is a real gold mine. We ended up discussing this excellent episode with @catiehausman.bsky.social going through her work on electricity transmission.
Reposted by Jesse D. Jenkins
Hedging and energy trading is always a tricky topic for students that haven't encountered this stuff before. I found this trio of videos gives some useful insights into oil trading that's pretty accessible and worked well. p1: tinyurl.com/3csz73a8 p2: tinyurl.com/2kwbed2x p3: tinyurl.com/3heytjkx
What is Hedging? | Oil and Commodities Trading
YouTube video by International Business House
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Hedging and energy trading is always a tricky topic for students that haven't encountered this stuff before. I found this trio of videos gives some useful insights into oil trading that's pretty accessible and worked well. p1: tinyurl.com/3csz73a8 p2: tinyurl.com/2kwbed2x p3: tinyurl.com/3heytjkx
Reposted by Jesse D. Jenkins
Understanding the clean energy transition requires a firm grasp of the fossil fuel markets that still dominate the sector today. @planetmoney.bsky.social has some excellent energy reporting, including this piece on gasoline that features both @severinborenstein.bsky.social and Ryan Kellogg.
Breaking down the price of gasoline : Planet Money
High gas prices have fueled speculation and investigations — is anyone raising prices and keeping prices high for profit? To find out, we break down the price of gas, piece by piece, to show you how w...
www.npr.org
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Understanding the clean energy transition requires a firm grasp of the fossil fuel markets that still dominate the sector today. @planetmoney.bsky.social has some excellent energy reporting, including this piece on gasoline that features both @severinborenstein.bsky.social and Ryan Kellogg.
Reposted by Jesse D. Jenkins
For a class full of social science students, getting some grounding in how the physics and engineering of the grid interacts with the economics is key. The summer school series that @jessedjenkins.com and @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social put out on their excellent Shift Key podcast was perfect for this.
Shift Key Summer School: What Is a Watt?
Jesse teaches Rob the basics of energy, power, and what it all has to do with the grid.
heatmap.news
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
For a class full of social science students, getting some grounding in how the physics and engineering of the grid interacts with the economics is key. The summer school series that @jessedjenkins.com and @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social put out on their excellent Shift Key podcast was perfect for this.
Net-Zero America had three PIs and was originated before I joined the faculty at Princeton. None of the funding for my group came from Exxon.
December 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Net-Zero America had three PIs and was originated before I joined the faculty at Princeton. None of the funding for my group came from Exxon.
Never taken a dime from Exxon bro. BP. As explained at length elsewhere, including here x.com/i/status/200... Get your big evil funders straight. All my ZERO Lab funding is listed here zero.lab.princeton.edu/mission-peop...
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Never taken a dime from Exxon bro. BP. As explained at length elsewhere, including here x.com/i/status/200... Get your big evil funders straight. All my ZERO Lab funding is listed here zero.lab.princeton.edu/mission-peop...
For more, see my thread in the other place here x.com/i/status/200... and here x.com/i/status/200...
Jesse D. Jenkins on X: "Okay. I finally read the op ed. @MattYglesias is right. (98% right at least, which is an A+ for a NYT op ed). Don't @ me. It's the holidays and I don't have the appetite. But Matty's position is pragmatic, substantively sound, and the only way we have a chance of making any" / X
Okay. I finally read the op ed. @MattYglesias is right. (98% right at least, which is an A+ for a NYT op ed). Don't @ me. It's the holidays and I don't have the appetite. But Matty's position is pragmatic, substantively sound, and the only way we have a chance of making any
x.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For more, see my thread in the other place here x.com/i/status/200... and here x.com/i/status/200...
Thanks for your leadership on this paper Nick!
December 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Thanks for your leadership on this paper Nick!
Listen to this week's Shift Key podcast on Eavor's first-of-a-kind geothermal project, which went online in Bavaria this month, @heatmap_news heatmap.news/podcast/shif... or wherever you get your podcasts. 🔌💡
Say ‘Guten Tag!’ to This New Kind of Geothermal Tech
Rob and Jesse catch up with Mark Fitzgerald, CEO of the closed-loop geothermal startup Eavor.
heatmap.news
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Listen to this week's Shift Key podcast on Eavor's first-of-a-kind geothermal project, which went online in Bavaria this month, @heatmap_news heatmap.news/podcast/shif... or wherever you get your podcasts. 🔌💡
And ideally treat large loads and generators symmetrically. What's the difference between a data center with a generator and a battery? They both can consume and inject power from/to the grid.
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And ideally treat large loads and generators symmetrically. What's the difference between a data center with a generator and a battery? They both can consume and inject power from/to the grid.
"PowerChina has launched its 2026 centralized equipment procurement program, issuing tenders covering ... 35 GW of wind turbines, 31 GW of solar modules and 31 GW of solar inverters for 2026 projects, with bids due by Dec. 24, 2025." 🔌💡
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"PowerChina has launched its 2026 centralized equipment procurement program, issuing tenders covering ... 35 GW of wind turbines, 31 GW of solar modules and 31 GW of solar inverters for 2026 projects, with bids due by Dec. 24, 2025." 🔌💡